Our Troubles with Food

Our Troubles with Food
Title Our Troubles with Food PDF eBook
Author Stephen Halliday
Publisher The History Press
Pages 317
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Cooking
ISBN 0752496271

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For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear and anxiety. Religious traditions have long decreed what foods are right for their followers to eat, but secularisation and scientific progress have not made the situation easier. Our present obsession with health, obesity, ethics and science has seemingly developed from a society that is over-supplied with the necessities of life. For the first time, social historian Stephen Halliday looks at the history of our fascinating relationship with food, from Galen in the first century AD declaring that fruit was the worst kind of food to eat, to John Kellogg's belief that eating wholegrain cereals would prevent masturbation and bring people closer to God. Through modern fears and food scares such as mad cow disease to our current fascination with superfoods, 'friendly' bacteria and organic farming, Our Troubles with Food is a thorough analysis of our changing attitudes towards food and a reminder that we are not so very different from our forbears after all.

Feeding Britain

Feeding Britain
Title Feeding Britain PDF eBook
Author Tim Lang
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 608
Release 2020-03-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0241404819

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How does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point? How can we fix it before it is too late? British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass 'ultra-processed' substances alongside food as varied and good as anywhere else on the planet. This book takes stock of the UK food system: where it comes from, what we eat, its impact, fragilities and strengths. It is a book on the politics of food. It argues that the Brexit vote will force us to review our food system. Such an opportunity is sorely needed. After a brief frenzy of concern following the financial shock of 2008, the UK government has slumped once more into a vague hope that the food system will keep going on as before. Food, they said, just required a burst of agri-technology and more exports to pay for our massive imports. Feeding Britain argues that this and other approaches are short-sighted, against the public interest, and possibly even strategic folly. Setting a new course for UK food is no easy task but it is a process, this book urges, that needs to begin now. 'Tim Lang has performed a public service' Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times

Recipe for America

Recipe for America
Title Recipe for America PDF eBook
Author Jill Richardson
Publisher Ig Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780981504032

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Food activist Richardson shows readers how sustainable agriculture offers the only solution to the world's food and environmental crises. A call to action for those who are concerned about what they eat and the health of the planet.

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary
Title Eat, Drink, and Be Wary PDF eBook
Author Charles M. Duncan
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 219
Release 2015-01-15
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 1442238402

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Food safety has fast become one of the nation’s top issues. Three thousand people die each year in the U.S. from foodborne illnesses. Another 48 million are sickened annually and our government fails to protect us. Many foods and additives that we eat every day have been banned for years in other countries. Our government food safety agencies move in reverse--cutting back on inspections, allowing food producers to inspect themselves, and permitting the vast majority of potentially adulterated foods to enter this country without benefit of any testing or inspection. How, in a country so advanced in most areas, could we have descended to this alarming state of food safety? One answer: Budget cuts and bureaucrats. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary examines the multitude of dangers in food production, transportation, storing, and preparation that result in this shocking number of preventable illnesses and deaths. It takes a broad and detailed look, in all food groups, at the problems and potential solutions in food safety practices, inspections, and enforcements. This book answers the questions and concerns of millions of Americans who have reached new levels of serious doubts about the safety of our food. Charles Duncan points readers to the dangers to look for in deli foods, raw milk, seafood, poultry, eggs, beef, and others. For consumers who care about the food they eat, this book details the dangers, offers direction for choosing safe foods, and provides a critique of our current system that suggests ways it can be fixed, or at least improved.

It's Not about the Food

It's Not about the Food
Title It's Not about the Food PDF eBook
Author Esther Kane
Publisher Esther Kane, Msw
Pages 248
Release 2009-01
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780978070625

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Kane describes a program that is a sane, balanced approach to food and eating.

The Omnivorous Mind

The Omnivorous Mind
Title The Omnivorous Mind PDF eBook
Author John S. Allen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 268
Release 2012-05-15
Genre Science
ISBN 0674069870

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In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings’ biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of our species. Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs, anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts out with the diets of our earliest ancestors, explores cooking’s role in our evolving brain, and moves on to the preoccupations of contemporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind delivers insights into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from “healthy” food pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the French, bien sûr, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic pleasure). To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of crispy foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our insect-eating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of crunch may stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which we think of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure. When it comes to eating, Allen shows, there’s no one way to account for taste.

Our Food

Our Food
Title Our Food PDF eBook
Author Grace Lin
Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing
Pages 44
Release 2016
Genre Diet
ISBN 1580895905

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Introduces the five food groups and the benefits of nutritional eating.